So I told you the search term that brings ProBlogger the most traffic from Google….
What search term brings you more traffic than any other term?
Check out your stats and see what’s bringing in the most visitors for you and tell us in comments below.
Bonus Question – What’s the funniest search term that brings you traffic?
I went through a similar exercise earlier in the week in relation to your earlier post.
My funniest, or rather my most endearing search term was this:
“writing is easy hit your forehead”
It just made me wonder what state the person was in who typed it into their keyboard :)
Joanna
Kayak fishing – simple and low traffic, but thats it and its helping me in my world of fishing web sites.
Can I also take this chance just to say a deep heart felt thanks to your Darren for all your information. I do think some of your thoughts are crap, but a huge “vast majority” are truly great – nice one!! (your a clever bloke)
My blog is about economics and finance but, because I made a joke about Britney’s exposed vulva a long time ago, I have had people looking for “Britney’s exposed vulva” and “exposed vulva pictures”
Truly bizarre
The number 2 search term for my site is “youtute” which a user mis-spelt once.
LOL Joanna!
My top keyword is ‘virtual assistant’ which is exactly what I’ve been targeting so that’s good to know. it accounts for about 17% of searches.
Also I’ve been getting a lot of variations on ‘timothy ferris’ or ‘the 4-hour work week’ as I did make one post on that.
My favorite search term is ‘pomegrantie martini’s’ as I once made a post saying I had a girls night and we had those, lol.
Angela Wills
http://www.StarVA.com
My top search term for RichMinx.com in the past three months has been ‘Win an iPhone” from a comp I linked to a few weeks ago. I was on page one of Google for a bit. (Sorry Darren, I know you’re sick of the topic!)
The silliest: how to choose, there are so many. Maybe ‘tips to win future rich wife’.
I’ve been ranking well (mostly number 1 until today) for “John Chow” which sends about 20 uniques per day.
“Pen Gun”
1st – class c motor homes
2nd – fifth wheel campers
3rd – 5th wheel campers
4th – motorcycle tent trailer
5th – motorcycle tent trailers
Interesting. I had not looked at this for a while. The blog is connected to an outdoors website, no sales, just good content and good links. It gives me some ideas on where I need to work on my site!
My top three incoming searches from google are “free blog templates”, “free blogger templates” and “free blog template”.
Well, for my haunted lighthouses website, it’s “haunted lighthouses” that brings in the most traffic. Although not once but two times someone plugged “4000 ghosts” into Google and found me!?!?!?
Over the past 30 days, the top spot is tied between “Simpleology” (a goal setting program) and “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” (a personal development book). Makes a lot of sense, since I write about both quite a bit.
The search term “satanism” + “better life” was an interesting one… :).
One of the best tips I’ve seen for search engines is doing a monthly report of the terms that find you that link to the specific resources on that subject. It’s self-reinforcing what they look for.
I do well on romantic movies, bypassing gmail filters at work, lolcats, facebook, disabling filterkeys, ie7 uninstall, syncing google calendar/last.fm/ipod/etc.
Needless to say I have a lack of focus with my search term results and what I usually write about. :)
spiderman & superman are two of the funniest terms that bring me traffic- more than you would guess…
Just about 2-3 word combination of AJAX, progress, indicator, and/or CSS brings me the bulk of my search traffic.
Variations of “Highslide” round out most of the remaining hits.
I used to get a lot for “disable button control”, but that post went supplemental and I haven’t yet been able to get it out.
The ones I laugh at are the “insert hockey player’s name + girlfriend” searches. I have a Detroit Red Wings blog and don’t really touch on any of the players’ personal lives whatsoever, yet my blog pops up almost daily for a search with a hockey player’s name and the word girlfriend.
Hmm…
“How can I get my teacher to like me?”
Someone had written a news story about a teacher who got busted for having sex with a student on one of my community blogs. Ha!
I actually just put up a post about some of the recent funny search terms that had brought people to my site. My personal favorite was “shut up you lazy bastard”. ;)
One bonus to this exercise (in addition to the laughs) is that many bloggers realize that all it takes is ONE POST about a certain keyword combination to secure loads of future traffic.
– Aaron
This is an absolutely BRILLIANT post! Nothing like getting some dope keywords in your comment section! Recently referencing Miss New Jersey brought in a lot of traffic. However, given that we’re a career blog, we probably won’t hold on to too many…
My site is almost entirely about education issues and college admissions.
The most bizarre search term that I see more than I’d like? Someone searching a variant of “teacher student pedophile,” and I have absolutely no idea why it leads to my site. I’ve never written about teacher/student sex scandals.
Weird.
My top search engine keywords are:
1. Run command
2. Hidden program in xp
3. Smartbro
4. Install ie7 without wga
5. Bypass Windows XP validation
6. Hidden password generator
And lots more!!!. Everyday, there are new keywords that google brings me visitors.
My top search terms are very much skewed away from the core content of the site. From the last 4,000 visitors (SiteMeter-powered), I see:
1. soft sex
2. watch Simpsons online
3. watch Simpsons online free
4. best TV shows 2007
5. watch the Simpsons onliine
6. Yi Jianlian Kings
7. ihome
8. crotch
9. best tv show 2007
10. yi jianlian Sacramento
Source: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15lgraycom&r=51
I get a lot of visitors from people looking for tips to receive better feedback from their customers. I rank 1st for “customer feedback tips”, so I get a lot from that.
The funniest search term has to be one from today… “horse suck video”. Trust me, I have no horse sucking videos on my site. I just happen to have a post titled “I suck and I love it!” (referencing my love for negative feedback) and I also happen to video blog. Where the horse comes in to it, I don’t know. :D
I have a geektastic tech blog, and my 5 of my top 6 search terms are variations on “XAMPP Apache won’t start” from a quick post I tossed up there after I’d had a problem running Apache on my laptop.
I get a few dozen uniques a week from it.
My favorite search term is “Solar Death Ray”. I posted once about someone’s rather successful attempt at making a solar death ray that could melt plastic toys and marshmallows. That one comes up a few times a week.
cisco adler’s balls
No kidding… I searched google & we’re not even in the top 100, so I don’t know how they find us.
My number one search term is “Mindanao”
For several months, I was getting significant traffic for the search “151” although I have no idea why!
My keyword ranking are:
1) i am bored
2) iambored
3) iphone smash – (the the hype was all about iphone)
I have 1 recent search string “i am bored and scared” and I really don’t know what’s that all about!!
My #1 keyword has remained the same for about 3 months.
“N800 Review”
Most of the visitors come from Google and maybe 10% from other SEs.
Well My top traffic are
1) vlc player
2) vlc player vista
3) hj splitter
4) pinecone research
5) watch tv online
keyword “sex” from the google image search. It actually points to an image called sex_education.jpg which I used for my sex education entry. Funny how google points them to a wholesome article. hehe
Some common incoming terms:
“bathroom divas”
“collaborative piano”
“piano blog”
“piano blogs”
and inexplicably, a noticeable number in the last few days for “t”, as in the letter t.
Perhaps I should be working on optimizing my site for more letters than just “t”, which represents only 1/26th of possible single-letter searches.
1. Leo Messi
2. 600 000 euros
3. Paul Potts
4. salto
Not much more
http://iamboredr.com/… Clever URL Christian. I know I’ve typed in “i am bored” on more than a few occasions. Here’s one for you “bored blogger.” iamboredst.com.
The word “Desty” is double the closest keyword as far as incomming traffic is concerned.
The next five are
Prosense Theme
Blog Mastermind
Paid to blog guides
Paid to blog pay, – “no pay”
“blog mastermind” review
Eating disorders
Books you must read before you die (or variations of that statement)
“Yummy Mummy” (I’m flattered!)
And a certain male appendage (not proud of that one….)
Two weeks old blog and yet not even just one visit from google or yahoo…hmmm :-(
My number 1 search term as of yesterday seems to be Terapon Adhahn – the 42-year-old immigrant from Thailand that abducted the 12-year-old girl on July 4th.
I wrote an article on him on the morning of the 13th, very early. I was one of three google reponses that came up if you searched for his name. The other two sites were just your standard local news sites.
His name hit google’s hot trends for a few hours, getting up into like the upper 20’s I believe. I got TONS of traffic from the search engines.
Over the long run, the next best keyword is Jasmine Richardson, the 12-year-old girl who helped Steinke kill her mom, dad, and 8-year-old brother. I’ve gotten a ton of hits from her name as well.
# 1 – women’s arm toning
funniest – fat butt
according to my GA and wordpress stats :
harry potter 7, Voldemort killed Hermione?
download slackware 12 iso
asus eee
cisco lab topology
installing freebsd video
serial number office 2007
dynamips and dynagen
microsoft loopback adapter
but seem traffic for harry potter generate by an MFA site, with different link it link to my blog.
I get an unreal number of hits from people looking for information on “Dog the Bounty Hunter” which I wrote about once. Oh and “dirty boys” from a post I wrote about Mike Rowe, host of “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery channel which had “Dirty Boys” in the title. Somehow I don’t think the searchers are getting the information they were looking for :)
Funniest search term that still brings me traffic is “cow patti”. I did a music post one time on a song by that name and it’s amazing and funny how many people search for cow patti and end up on my blog.
My Top Search Terms:
Totally Rad Actions
Digital Scrapbooking
Photoshop Actions
My most interesting search term was “Maya and Miguel” – pretty boring… I happened to mention in an old post that I am grateful for my second monitor because my toddler son often wants to sit on my lap while I am blogging and so I blog and he watches Maya and Miguel on the second monitor…
The person commented about it and told me they wanted to send me a DVD of Maya and Miguel – my first thought was that they know I have a toddler and now they want my address – not a good thing. That experience has really stopped me from talking about my family – which is sometimes difficult because my blog is about scrapbooking and most of what I scrapbook is my family. I would really like to see you talk about privacy issues and blogging – blogging etiquette with regards to what is the safest way to protect your family and blog. That would be cool.
“Ratatouille recipe” and “Chris Benoit dead” are my top search terms.
The most interesting was “Megan Fox feet”.
So far for July the most common search phrase for me is: “Working with Friends”.
And the funniest one this month is: “how much do you have to pay for a prostitute”. Which knocked me out of my chair when I saw it. I wrote an article about how much to charge for your web design services and quoted a friend of mine who said “don’t prostitute your talent or abilities.”
Hillarious! I love looking at keywords and phrases people type. Great post idea.
hands down, “salad mobile” gets me more traffic than anything else.
Don’t get many search Traffic, I guess My SEO is just a rookie… But My top 1 Search is From “Baketan Ghost Radar” It’s gadget to detect Ghost,, I also get many links from That Post :)
“Best cities for allergy sufferers” is currently my #1.
The strangest? “Husband allergic to wife’s fluid”.
My top search phrase, which has been top for the last year or more, is the name of a pr0n star that I accidentally embedded into a headline just round about the day she first appeared on the scene! Sadly, I’m too principled to exploit it via some adult affiliate scheme.
My third is another pr0n word in English but is a perfectly acceptable word in Japanese cuisine, which I freely admit to link baiting on.
Talking of pr0n searches, once every other day or so I get people looking for “nuked japanese women”, although I have pictures of neither the phrase nor the spelling-corrected version.
My favourite one-off phrase was “does the queen fart?”
LOL…this one just came in:
“stove pipe gathered pants 2007”
WTF?!!
I run a daily humor blog, but I don’t see how that got someone to me. Crazy.
Common search term for my personal blog: “depression in academia”
Common search term for my museum blog: “museums and Second Life”
Strangest search term that I remember: “Caleb McDaniel’s man boobs”
I also get a lot of people looking for news (or photos–ewww!) of “the Clutter murders,” since my personal blog is called “The Clutter Museum.” (Sickos.)